Networking Events

Past Networking Events

Finance Directors' Dinner

20th July, 2009
The Berkeley

On Monday 20^th July Walpole held the inaugural Walpole member Finance Directors' Dinner at the Berkeley Hotel. Our guest speaker for the evening was Dan Bogler, Managing Editor of the Financial Times.

Marketing Directors' Dinner 2009

16th March, 2009
Home House

The second Walpole Luxury Marketing Directors Dinner was held on Monday 16^th March, hosted by Walpole CEO Julia Carrick and took place at Walpole Member Home House. The evening began with a drinks reception in the Front Parlor which was an ideal setting for some serious networking. Walpole facilitators were on hand to introduce members to each other.

Marketing Directors' Dinner 2008

17th March, 2008
Home House, London

The inaugural Walpole Luxury Dinner for Marketing and Communications Directors was held on Monday 17th March, at Home House. Attended by over 70 British Luxury Marketers, the event was held to facilitate Networking and information sharing across the luxury industry.

Guests were treated to an entertaining speech by Luke Johnson, Chairman of Channel 4 Television and Risk Capital Partners, who gave an amusing insight to the pitfalls and triumphs of running a successful business.

Arts & Business and Ledbury Research Breakfast

31 October 2007
National Portrait Gallery

Walpole Friends, Arts & Business hosted a very special Meet the Members event at The National Portrait Gallery on Wednesday 31 October.

The breakfast marked the launch of Arts & Business' latest research, conducted by Ledbury Research, exploring the ways in which luxury brands and cultural organisations work together. The presentation included highlights of the research presented by Marc Cohen of Ledbury Research and a case study discussion with the National Portrait Gallery and Krug.

Walpole Meet The Members Event With Boodles

12 July 2007
New Bond Street Store, London

The second "Meet the Members" event took place with Boodles to launch the opening of their New Bond Street Store. The store, designed by Eva Jiricna, has a wonderful new, contemporary space in which to house all the collections from Boodles.

Member Networking Evening

21 September 2006
Davenport Lyons, London

The evening has been built around the desire for members to meet and network with other member brands on a more formal basis. There will be facilitators on hand on the evening to help make introductions.

Networking Event at Home House

14 March 2006
Home House, London

Introducing the UK’s first luxury consumer panel; Walpole and BLM Red collaborated to construct a panel of 3,919 active buyers of luxury spanning nine product categories.

Networking Evening And McKinsey Presentation On - The Luxury Consumer

23 March 2005

Over 100 people, representing 40 member companies attended the networking evening at Home House. The evening began with a presentation by Johanna Waterous and Demetra Pinsent of McKinsey & Company of the results of their ‘Luxury Customer’ survey This was followed by an opportunity for members to network It was a lively and productive event and the feedback from the members has been excellent, surpassing many of their expectations.

Our thanks go to Piers Lawson of event organisers In Any Event who helped with the organisation of this event, Home House for hosting us, McKinsey for sharing with us the presentation and our facilitators John Chadwick Jones of Wordwide, Dominic McCarthy, Neville McCarthy Associates and Peter Sage of CTS Internet Development for giving up their free time.